Gluyas Williams’s Benchley Covers Robert Benchley books and Gluyas Williams drawings go together like soup and sandwich. Yesterday I looked up the dust jacket art for Benchley’s collections (first editions, and only those books published before his death in 1945). Here’s what I found (still looking for the Williams cover art appearing on Benchley’s first collection, 1921’s Of All
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Latest Addition To The Spill Archive: A 1951 NYU Parody Issue Of The New Yorker What began with The New Yorker parodying itself (an in-office publication via Rea Irvin featuring a silhouette of Harold Ross in Eustace Tilley’s place, looking at Alexander Woollcott instead of a butterfly) carried on through the decades. (The Spill has a copy of Lois Long‘s
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Book And Drawings Of Interest A week or so ago I was pleased to hear from a good friend of the Spill, the author, Steve Stoliar, that he’d scored an inscribed copy of George Ade’s The Old-Time Saloon. Steve told me: “The description said it was a humorous look at how dull things have gotten with Prohibition in effect (It still
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Mary Gauerke: The Only Woman Drawing Cartoons For The New Yorker In The 1960s Reading Liza Donnelly’s Very Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Women Cartoonists, there’s no missing how central women artists were in the magazine’s developing years. Harold Ross, The New Yorker‘s founder and first editor, considered three cartoonists above and beyond all of his other cartoonists (their names
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